Are you trying to burn the bootloader into the 32 chip here? Did you first upload the ArduinoISPsketch into the UNO chip? Did you then select the proper board when burning the bootloader?Do you have all the proper connections between boards?

Thank you for your help. I've put a 120 Ohm resistor between the Arduino Reset and GND, but it needed a 10 uF capacitor instead of it. Now I see the heartbeat LED powered on.

In the future if you want to use a resistor to defeat auto-reset it has to wire between +5V and reset, a capacitor wires from reset to ground as you found out. Either method works.

Funny thing is I've used arduinoISP sketch quite a bit recently on an older Duem board and have never had to defeat the auto-reset to have it function. It's a timing thing I know but I wonder what the variations are that make it required for some but not for others? Actually my Duem has the optiboot bootloader on it so it thinks it's a Uno board and has to be selected as such to upload to it.

Are you trying to burn the bootloader into the 32 chip here? Did you first upload the ArduinoISPsketch into the UNO chip? Did you then select the proper board when burning the bootloader?Do you have all the proper connections between boards?

Yes, if the target chip has had it's fuse settings change in the past to work with an external clock source that would prevent it from working.

Lefty

I don't have any 16 MHz oscillator. Will I have any problems by using a different frequency (14 or 22)?

Not for just the purpose to burn a sketch or a bootloader onto the target. However the frequency does need to be correct for the bootloader to work with the arduino IDE as the baud rate will not be correct if not clocked at the speed the specific bootloader was created to work at.

Not for just the purpose to burn a sketch or a bootloader onto the target. However the frequency does need to be correct for the bootloader to work with the arduino IDE as the baud rate will not be correct if not clocked at the speed the specific bootloader was created to work at.

Lefty

Do I have to use the two capacitors? If so, their capacitance has to be as said here (18 or 22 pF)?